linux-kernel - [PATCH] remove availability for PAGE

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Date:	Tue, 6 Mar 2007 08:31:45 -0800
From:	"David Brown" <dmlb2000@...il.com>
To:	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] remove availability for PAGE_SIZE and friends (i386)

After a bit of discussion I found out that PAGE_SIZE really shouldn't
be available for use at all by userspace. So here's a patch to move
the __KERNEL__ define to include PAGE_SIZE and friends for i386.

Thanks,
- David Brown

diff --git a/include/asm-i386/page.h b/include/asm-i386/page.h
index 7b19f45..2f686d5 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/page.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/page.h
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #ifndef _I386_PAGE_H
 #define _I386_PAGE_H

+#define __KERNEL__
+
 /* PAGE_SHIFT determines the page size */
 #define PAGE_SHIFT     12
 #define PAGE_SIZE      (1UL << PAGE_SHIFT)
@@ -9,7 +11,6 @@
 #define LARGE_PAGE_MASK (~(LARGE_PAGE_SIZE-1))
 #define LARGE_PAGE_SIZE (1UL << PMD_SHIFT)

-#ifdef __KERNEL__
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
-
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